From owner-mint@fishpool.com Tue Apr 1 16:18:11 2003 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:14:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Standa Opichal X-X-Sender: stop@mail.idoox.com To: MiNT List cc: Roger Burrows Subject: Re: [MiNT] Extendos and MiNT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: opichals@seznam.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Hi! On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Frank Naumann wrote: > Hello! > > > > Regarding the ExtenDOS... Anodyne were quite kind in my personal mails > > > so I suggest they would like to provide the FreeMiNT .xfs > > > > Roger is working hard on the FreeMiNT XFS for ExtenDOS and I think it > > will be available soon, I have helped him beta testing it and it works > > just fine, so be patient.:-) > > It's just the problem that this is closed source and we have therefore the > same problems as with spin again. Yes, what about releasing the .xfs sources at least? It is not that a secret what you can find it in any open-source OS (I don't believe one would invent the wheel again, especially Anodyne SW ;)). You can leave the BIOS driver closed source when you create a well defined API... Roger? best regards STan